Just before
I close my eyes
I write your name
it awakens
a distant memory
a door opens
in my heart
a breeze
flutters through
the candle flickers
but too slowly
to be extinguished
yet I know
it is all an illusion
turned to ashes
long ago
© Ann Bagnall

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